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Mom defends son suspended for reciting racy lyric
A 6-year-old boy is back at his suburban Denver school after being suspended for three days for reciting a racy line from a popular song. D’Avonte Meadows, a first-grader at Sable Elementary School in Aurora, returned to class Monday after serving out his suspension. D’Avonte was accused of sexual harassment and disrupting other students for [...]
Charges expected in FAMU drum major’s hazing death
When prosecutors announce criminal charges Wednesday in the hazing death of a Florida A&M University band member, they will embark on a legal chess game involving multiple defendants who require different approaches for winning convictions, experts say. Prosecutors have prepared at least five separate cases against the suspects who contributed to 26-year-old Robert Champion’s death [...]
All eyes on Fla. jail as Zimmerman awaits release
All eyes remain on the Florida jail where the man charged with murdering 17-year-old Trayvon Martin is awaiting release on bail, and it could be several days before he leaves. George Zimmerman’s attorney was still working Sunday to secure the money for bail and a safe place for the 28-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer to stay. [...]
National Council of Negro Women Announces Focused Effort on Eye Health
The National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) is making eye health an important component to its health programming to address the higher risk among African Americans for many eye- and overall-health issues that can impact vision. One of the goals of this focus is to drive awareness about the importance of getting a regular eye [...]
Police handcuff Georgia kindergartner for tantrum
A kindergartner who threw a tantrum at her small-town Georgia school was taken away in handcuffs, her arms behind her back, in an episode that is firing up the debate over whether teachers and police around the country are overreacting all too often when dealing with disruptive students. The family of 6-year-old Salecia Johnson lashed [...]
